Finnish Amnesty Member: Germany’s Hezbollah Ban Is Illustration of How “Terrorist” Lists Are Power Politics Tools

By Staff, Agencies

An Amnesty International board member from Finland denounced on Sunday Germany’s decision to ban the Lebanese Resistance group Hezbollah.

Syksy Rasanen, a Finnish physicist with a long history of anti-“Israel” activism – including the publication of a book called “Israeli” Apartheid – commented, “Germany’s ban on Hezbollah is a perfect illustration of how ‘terrorist’ lists are tools of power politics.”

“Admittedly, there is the difference that most ‘Israeli’ parties have been implementing the elimination of Palestine, not just called for it,” he asserted.

Rasanen wrote, “Yet Likut [sic], Yesh Atid, Shas, Labor etc. are valued partners for Germany and the EU, instead of being labeled terrorists.”

Various prominent members of Amnesty International’s Finland branch had publicly released anti-“Israel” statements before.